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David N. Bossie, the president of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_United" title="Citizens United">Citizens United</a> and president and manager of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Presidential_Coalition" title="The Presidential Coalition">The Presidential Coalition</a>, "earned a reputation as a relentless sleuth -- or <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Right-wing" title="Right-wing">right-wing</a> hit man, depending on one's political persuasion -- during his years as a high-profile <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> congressional investigator and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)">conservative</a> activist."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#Swiftboating_Hillary">1 Swiftboating Hillary</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#Hillary:The_Movie">2 Hillary: The Movie</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#Citizens_United_v.Federal_Election_Commission">3 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#Obsessed_with_the_Clintons">4 Obsessed with the Clintons</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#More_controversy">5 More controversy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#.22accidental_filmmaker.22">6 "accidental filmmaker"</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#Books">7 Books</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#Resources_and_articles">8 Resources and articles</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#Related_SourceWatch_articles">8.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#References">8.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#Profiles">8.3 Profiles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#Books_about_David_Bossie">8.4 Books about David Bossie</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#Articles_by_David_Bossie">8.5 Articles by David Bossie</a></li>

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<h2><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swiftboating" title="Swiftboating">Swiftboating</a> Hillary</h2>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" class="mw-redirect">Hillary Clinton</a> is "ahead in the polls and on course to become the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect">Democrats'</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hillary_Clinton:U.S.presidential_election,_2008" title="Hillary Clinton: U.S. presidential election, 2008">presidential candidate for 2008</a>. So it is no surprise that a right-wing smear campaign is gathering speed to derail Senator Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House," Paul Harris wrote June 17, 2007, for the UK's The Observer. "Conservative groups and political figures are planning a film, books and a concerted media campaign to demonise Clinton, who is already one of the most polarising figures in American politics.

"Top of the list of projects is a planned movie, being filmed by veteran Republican operator David Bossie.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> Bossie is raising money for the film through his conservative group Citizens United, which is appealing for video footage, stories about Clinton and money. It plans a release by the end of the year, just as the first primary elections are held in New Hampshire. Bossie is being helped in the project by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dick_Morris" title="Dick Morris">Dick Morris</a>, a former top Clinton aide who has become a leading Clinton critic," Harris wrote.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

"Citizens United and other Republican groups are set to model their anti-Clinton operation on the notorious <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth">Swift Boat</a> campaign that derailed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" class="mw-redirect">John Kerry</a>'s 2004 bid for the White House. That aggressive smear campaign focused on Kerry's Vietnam war record and was seen as critical in President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W Bush</a>'s election victory. 'The Swift Boat campaign is going to be a direct model. They have openly come out and said that,' said Terry Krepel, editor of Conwebwatch, a website that monitors the output of conservative news media," Harris wrote.

<h2>Hillary: The Movie</h2>

Bossie's film Hillary: The Movie became a subject of controversy during the 2008 presidential election when Bossie was barred from advertising it. A federal court ruled that "Citizens United could not run ads for its negative film on Hillary Rodham Clinton without disclosing the ad’s donors. The group wants to release and promote 'Hillary: The Movie' to coincide with the dates when many states will hold primary elections, but the court found that in order for the ads to adhere to current campaign finance law, Citizens United would have to disclose who paid for the ads."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a> The group has appealed this case all the way to the Supreme Court. For more information about the legal arguments in that case and its implications for individual rights in a democracy as compared with corporate rights, see <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Corporate_Rights" title="Portal:Corporate Rights">Portal:Corporate_Rights</a>

<h2>Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</h2>

In January 2010, the case eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in a divided 5-4 vote, held that section 441b of the 2002 McCain-Feingold federal campaign finance law (Bipartisan Campaign Reform) was unconstitutional. The law prohibited corporations and unions from using their general treasury funds to make independent expenditures for "electioneering communication," or for speech expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate.

The ruling effectively protected corporate speech the same as individual speech. The majority’s ruling about corporate electioneering marked a dramatic break from the past. In doing so, the Court rejected a century of previous court decisions that ruled corporate donations can, and should be regulated. In its ruling, the court never explained why corporate identity demands the same treatment as individual identity.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a>

<h2>Obsessed with the Clintons</h2>

"Through the 1990s, Bossie spent much of his time assembling caches of documents to push his admittedly ideological agenda. He was a ready promoter of stories about President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>'s sexual and ethical lapses, proved and otherwise."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a>

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<li>Note: According to an October 10, 2003, archived version of his Citizens United profile, "Bossie served as president and chief investigator for the Center for Government Integrity, a government watchdog group investigating the then-Clinton Administration."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a></li>

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<li>The Center for Government Integrity is a project of Citizens United and not a separate entity, as the profile indicates.</li>

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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Center for Government Integrity</h1>

The Center for Government Integrity (CGI), affiliated with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_United" title="Citizens United">Citizens United</a>, states that it "conducts research, analyzes issues and provides information to the public on an array of issues relating to ethics in government. CGI and its founder, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie" title="David N. Bossie">David N. Bossie</a>, were instrumental in exposing corruption in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clinton_administration" title="Clinton administration">Clinton administration</a> and the project continues to work to expose and root-out <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a> and abuses of power at all levels of government," the Citizens United website states.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#Solicitations">1 Solicitations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#Mailing_lists">2 Mailing lists</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#Contact_information">3 Contact information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#Resources_and_articles">4 Resources and articles</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#References">4.1 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#External_articles">4.2 External articles</a></li>

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<h2>Solicitations</h2>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Response_Dynamics_Inc." title="Response Dynamics Inc.">Response Dynamics Inc.</a> is under contract with the Center for Government Integrity and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Sovereignty_Action_Projects&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Sovereignty Action Projects (page does not exist)">American Sovereignty Action Projects</a> through August 27, 2008.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

<h2>Mailing lists</h2>

The mailing list for CGI was sold to "CHRISTIAN PAC DONORS AND ACTIVISTS" by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Response_Unlimited" title="Response Unlimited">Response Unlimited</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

<h2>Contact information</h2>

1006 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE

Washington, DC 20003

Phone: 202 547-5420

Toll-Free: 800 362-4788

FAX: 202 547-5421

URL: <a href="http://www.citizensunited.org/" class="external free" title="http://www.citizensunited.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.citizensunited.org/</a>

<h2>Resources and articles</h2>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.citizensunited.org/citizens_united.html" class="external text" title="http://www.citizensunited.org/citizens_united.html" rel="nofollow">Citizens United</a> website.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://146.63.113.142/pdf/consumer/2006-2007-paid-sol-reg.pdf" class="external text" title="http://146.63.113.142/pdf/consumer/2006-2007-paid-sol-reg.pdf" rel="nofollow">List of Paid Solicitors for Charitable Organizations</a>, September 1, 2006 through September 1, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Government_Integrity#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.responseunlimited.com/action.lasso?-response=usage.lasso&list=69&skip=50" class="external text" title="http://www.responseunlimited.com/action.lasso?-response=usage.lasso&list=69&skip=50" rel="nofollow">"Usage for CHRISTIAN PAC DONORS AND ACTIVISTS,"</a> Response Unlimited, 2000-2004.</li>

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<h3>External articles</h3>

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<li><a href="http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/gaocheney120902opn.pdf" class="external text" title="http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gao/gaocheney120902opn.pdf" rel="nofollow">David M. Walker, Comptroller of the United States, Plaintiff v. Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States and Chair, National Energy Policy Development Group</a>, Civil Action No. 02-0340 (JDB), United States District Court for the District of Columbia, December 9, 2002; posted online by FindLaw: "The Court has received amicus curiae briefs from the Center for Government Integrity, on behalf of defendant, and from Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid">Harry Reid</a> of Nevada, on behalf of plaintiff." re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cheney_Energy_Task_Force" title="Cheney Energy Task Force">Cheney Energy Task Force</a></li>

<li>Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman, <a href="http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/news/ledger/stories/0407umdnj.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/news/ledger/stories/0407umdnj.html" rel="nofollow">"Legislator drawn into the scandal at UMDNJ. U.S. Attorney looks at Sen. Bryant's job,"</a> he Star-Ledger (N.J.), April 7, 2006.</li>

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<li>Note: The same profile states that "After Clinton's election, Bossie wrote investigative pieces for the monthly newsletter, Clinton Watch. It was at this time Bossie began investigating what is now known as '<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Whitewater&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Whitewater (page does not exist)">Whitewater</a>' and provided key information to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FBI" title="FBI" class="mw-redirect">FBI</a> and the national television and print media, which led to the appointment of an <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Office_of_Independent_Counsel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Office of Independent Counsel (page does not exist)">Independent Counsel</a>."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a></li>

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"Not long into the Clinton Presidency, Citizens United produced the video Clinton Chronicles, based largely on dirt Bossie had been digging in Arkansas. The video, filled with a plethora of factual errors and uncorroborated or disproven rumors, has been almost completely discredited," Dave Gonzo wrote in American Politics Journal May 7, 1998.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a>

Trudy Lieberman wrote in the May/June 1994 issue of Columbia Journalism Review:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-9" title="">[10]</a>

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<dd>"Bossie, the twenty-eight-year-old political director for Citizens United, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)">conservative</a> Republican operation, runs an information factory whose Whitewater production lines turn out a steady stream of tips, tidbits, documents, factoids, suspicions, and story ideas for the nation's press and for Republicans on Capitol Hill. Journalists and Hill Republicans have recycled much of the information provided by Citizens United into stories that have cast a shadow on the Clinton presidency,"</dd>

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<dd>"Bossie, who says he works sixteen hours a day on Whitewater, earned his Republican stripes as the national youth director in Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Dole" title="Robert Dole" class="mw-redirect">Robert Dole</a>'s 1988 presidential campaign, and then moved on during the 1992 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_H.W._Bush" title="George H.W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">Bush campaign</a> to become executive director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Presidential_Victory_Committee" title="Presidential Victory Committee">Presidential Victory Committee</a>. His boss, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_Brown" title="Floyd Brown" class="mw-redirect">Floyd Brown</a>, worked as Dole's Midwest political director during the 1988 campaign, but is best known for producing the Willie Horton commercial that helped sink the presidential ambitions of Democrat <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Dukakis" title="Michael Dukakis" class="mw-redirect">Michael Dukakis</a>."</dd>

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"Bossie was fired from his job as an investigator working for Representative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dan_Burton" title="Dan Burton" class="mw-redirect">Dan Burton</a> (R-IN) on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Oversight_and_Government_Reform" title="House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform">House Government Reform and Oversight Committee</a> in 1998"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#cite_note-10" title="">[11]</a> while "investigating <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Clinton</a>-<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al_Gore" title="Al Gore" class="mw-redirect">Gore</a> campaign finances."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a> According to a May 7, 1998, front-page article published by the Washington Post,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#cite_note-12" title="">[13]</a> Bossie was fired "after overseeing the release of recordings of Hillary Rodham Clinton's phone conversations with [imprisoned] Whitewater figure <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Webster_L.Hubbell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Webster L. Hubbell (page does not exist)">Webster L. Hubbell</a>. The tapes were edited to create the impression that Clinton was involved in billing irregularities at the Arkansas law firm where she and Hubbell worked."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-13" title="">[14]</a>

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<li>Note: According to an October 10, 2003, archived version of his Citizens United profile, Bossie said that he "was recruited to this position by then-Speaker <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> and Chairman Burton to investigate then-President Clinton's illegal foreign money entering the United States to influence the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections. Bossie managed Burton's transition into the Chairmanship; managed a $10 million annual budget; directed personnel matters; and, supervised a 40-plus person investigative staff."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-14" title="">[15]</a></li>

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<li>Note: In their June 18, 2007, piece for Newsweek, Jonathan Darman and Mark Hosenball noted that "All the digging didn't amount to much: six years after the Clintons left the White House, Burton is a little-heard-from member of the minority party and Hillary Clinton is the front runner to be the Democrats' nominee for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hillary_Clinton:U.S.presidential_election,2008" title="Hillary Clinton: U.S. presidential election, 2008">president in 2008</a>."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#cite_note-15" title="">[16]</a></li>

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"Then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Burton, in response to the controversy, 'I'm embarrassed for you, I'm embarrassed for myself, and I'm embarrassed for the [House Republican] conference at the circus that went on at your committee.'"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-16" title="">[17]</a>

The archived October 2003 Citizens United profile also states that, "Prior to serving Chairman Burton, Bossie served in the United States Senate as an investigator for Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lauch_Faircloth" title="Lauch Faircloth">Lauch Faircloth</a> on the Special Committee to investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and related matters, chaired by Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alphonse_D%27Amato" title="Alphonse D'Amato">Alfonse D'Amato</a> [sic]."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-17" title="">[18]</a>

"Bossie and his Citizens United gang also made a mark in the 1992 campaign, when it produced an ad featuring Gennifer Flowers and sent out a fund-raising letter that gave the impression it was tied to the official <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_H.W.Bush" title="George H.W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">Bush campaign</a>. (The Bush campaign asked the [Federal Election Commission] to shut down Bossie's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a>.)," <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Corn" title="David Corn">David Corn</a> wrote May 7, 1998, for Salon.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N.Bossie#cite_note-18" title="">[19]</a>

Bossie's October 13, 2005, archived version of his Citizens United profile has been substantially <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Web_scrubbing" title="Web scrubbing">webscrubbed</a>, with the greatest mention of his involvement investigating the Clinton administration stated as follows:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-19" title="">[20]</a>

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<dd>"During Bill Clinton's two terms as president, Bossie led investigations ranging from the Whitewater land deal to the illegal foreign money schemes in the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign and the illegal transfer of dual-use technology to China."</dd>

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<h2>More controversy</h2>

In a November 2002 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Times" title="Washington Times">Washington Times</a> opinion piece<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-20" title="">[21]</a>, Bossie wrote:

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<dd>"The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" class="mw-redirect">Carter</a>-<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale">Mondale</a> administration is well-remembered as the most beleaguered period in the 20th century. Every American recalls the days of double-digit inflation, interest rates of 20 percent, double-digit unemployment and gas lines that stretched several city blocks."</dd>

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According to published statistics, however, the unemployment rate during Carter's tenure never exceeded 7 1/2 percent, although inflation did reach 13 1/2 % in 1980.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-21" title="">[22]</a>

In a July 20, 2004, Salon profile of Bossie, Eric Boehlert calls him "a political hit man by trade" and a "renowned Republican dirty trickster" who spent the 1990s "often at the epicenter of churning out stories about President Clinton, deftly feeding the press and Capitol Hill investigators outlandish -- and usually unsubstantiated -- assertions about White House wrongdoing".<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-22" title="">[23]</a>

The article notes that he returned during 2004 with books and actions aimed at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" class="mw-redirect">John Kerry</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Moore" title="Michael Moore">Michael Moore</a>.

According to a July 6, 2002, archived version of his Citizens United profile, Bossie was "State Youth Director for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Linda_Chavez" title="Linda Chavez">Linda Chavez</a> for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate">U.S. Senate</a> (MD) in 1986; and, the Maryland State Deputy Youth Director for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a>/<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_H.W.Bush" title="George H.W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">Bush</a> re-elect in 1984."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-23" title="">[24]</a>

The same 2002 profile states:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-24" title="">[25]</a>

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<dd>"From 1988 to 1990, Bossie was the Director of Programs for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leadership_Institute" title="Leadership Institute" class="mw-redirect">Leadership Institute</a> which trains young men and women in campaign technology, student publications and the operations of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress" title="Congress" class="mw-redirect">Congress</a>. Also, Bossie organized, managed and lectured at over 40 seminars per year. ...</dd>

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<dd>"Bossie has also been the subject of many newspaper stories, columns, and editorials and made an impact in the Clinton Administration.</dd>

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<dd>"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Novak" title="Bob Novak" class="mw-redirect">Bob Novak</a> wrote in the forward to Bossie's book, Prince Albert: the Life and Lies of Al Gore, 'the pattern of making maximum accusations that sound outrageous to many people but backing them up with fastidious documentation is Bossie's style.' And 'Bossie is an invariably accurate source' and '?accuracy is his watchword.'</dd>

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<dd>"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Carville" title="James Carville">James Carville</a>, President Clinton's top political operative, has said, 'Bossie is responsible for the greatest trick in American history, this entire Whitewater thing.'</dd>

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<dd>"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Don_Baer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Don Baer (page does not exist)">Don Baer</a>, former Clinton White House Communications Director said, 'Bossie is the absolute epicenter of the obsession with bringing down Bill Clinton.'</dd>

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<dd>"Bossie is also a central character in the national bestseller Bloodsport, written by Pullitzer Prize winning author <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Stewart&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Stewart (page does not exist)">James Stewart</a>. Stewart wrote that Bossie 'was the tireless conservative operative who became a one-man army against the Clintons and even penetrated a network news operation.'</dd>

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<dd>"Bossie attended Towson State University and the University of Maryland where he studied Government and Politics."</dd>

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<li>Note: Bossie's most recent Citizens United profile, accessed June 28, 2007, states the following regarding his education: "Born in Boston, Bossie attended the University of Maryland." There is no longer any mention of Towson State University.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-25" title="">[26]</a></li>

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<h2>"accidental filmmaker"</h2>

"David Bossie, a veteran conservative operative and self-described 'accidental filmmaker,' provided one of the event's most memorable offerings" at the November 10, 2006, weekend Liberty Film Festival in Hollywood, Max Blumenthal wrote November 16, 2006, in The Nation.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-26" title="">[27]</a>

In 1998, Bossie was "fired from his job as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight" after being "caught selectively editing tapes of former Clinton Administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations in a false effort to implicate Hillary Clinton for overbilling his law firm. ... Now Bossie has begun applying his tape-doctoring skills to film, installing editing equipment in the basement of Citizens United's offices and funneling millions of dollars from his group's coffers into producing full-length 'documentaries'," Blumenthal wrote.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-27" title="">[28]</a>

<h2>Books</h2>

<ul>

<li>David N. Bossie, Floyd G. Brown, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0936783281/qid=1096586103/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5130963-0528730?v=glance&s=books" class="external text" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0936783281/qid=1096586103/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5130963-0528730?v=glance&s=books" rel="nofollow">Prince Albert: the Life and Lies of Al Gore</a>", Merril Press, June 2000, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/0936783281" class="internal">ISBN 0936783281</a>.</li>

<li>"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785260749/002-9522323-2379220?v=glance" class="external text" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785260749/002-9522323-2379220?v=glance" rel="nofollow">Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a> (WND) Books, May 2004. ISBN: 0785260749</li>

<li>David N. Bossie, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785260757/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/104-5130963-0528730?v=glance&s=books&st=" class="external text" title="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785260757/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/104-5130963-0528730?v=glance&s=books&st=" rel="nofollow">The Many Faces of John Kerry</a>", WND Books, July 2004. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/0785260757" class="internal">ISBN 0785260757</a></li>

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While the author details on the Amazon listing for Prince Albert: the Life and Lies of Al Gore state Bossie "authored the best selling book, Slick Willie, Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton" the listing of that title only credits Floyd Brown as the author.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0963439707/102-9171122-5882538?%5Fencoding=UTF8" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0963439707/102-9171122-5882538?%5Fencoding=UTF8" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>. A biographical note on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Young_America%27s_Foundation" title="Young America's Foundation">Young America's Foundation</a> website states that Bossie "conducted the research and co-wrote, with Floyd Brown, Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_note-28" title="">[29]</a>

<h2>Resources and articles</h2>

<h3>Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_United" title="Citizens United">Citizens United</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Shirley" title="Craig Shirley">Craig Shirley</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeff_Gerth" title="Jeff Gerth">Jeff Gerth</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Presidential_Coalition" title="The Presidential Coalition">The Presidential Coalition</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Michael A. Fletcher, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901282.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901282.html" rel="nofollow">"Taking the Cause to the Big Screen. Conservative Advocate David Bossie Turns to Filmmaking After Looking to Counter 'Fahrenheit 9/11',"</a> Washington Post, August 30, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Hillary: The Movie at <a href="http://www.hillarymovie.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.hillarymovie.com/" rel="nofollow">HillaryMovie.com</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Paul Harris, <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2104853,00.html" class="external text" title="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2104853,00.html" rel="nofollow">"Anti-Hillary dirty tricks war hots up. Republicans use the internet, books and a film to try to derail Clinton's White House campaign,"</a> The Observer (UK), June 17, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.do" class="external text" title="http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.do" rel="nofollow">"Some Movie Ads Require Disclosure,"</a> CQ's MoneyLine, January 15, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> The Daily Star <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=30&article_id=111150" class="external text" title="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=30&article_id=111150" rel="nofollow">The court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</a> Excerpts of the decision. January 28, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> Michael A. Fletcher, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901282.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901282.html" rel="nofollow">"Taking the Cause to the Big Screen. Conservative Advocate David Bossie Turns to Filmmaking After Looking to Counter 'Fahrenheit 9/11',"</a> Washington Post, August 30, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031010160440/http://citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20031010160440/http://citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" rel="nofollow">About staff: David N. Bossie</a>, Citizens United; archived version October 10, 2003. Note: This profile is available in its archived version at WayBackMachine.org.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031010160440/http://citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20031010160440/http://citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" rel="nofollow">About staff: David N. Bossie</a>, Citizens United; archived version October 10, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> Dave "Doctor" Gonzo, <a href="http://www.americanpolitics.com/050798DISpatch.html" class="external text" title="http://www.americanpolitics.com/050798DISpatch.html" rel="nofollow">"David Bossie, Vast Right-Wing Conspirator of the Week,"</a> American Politics Journal, May 7, 1998.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-9" title="">↑</a> Trudy Lieberman, <a href="http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/94/3/whitewater.asp" class="external text" title="http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/94/3/whitewater.asp" rel="nofollow">"Churning Whitewater,"</a> CJR (Columbia Journalism Review), May/June 1994. Also <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199405/ai_n8722911" class="external text" title="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_199405/ai_n8722911" rel="nofollow">archived</a> at FindArticles.com.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-10" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200405110003" class="external text" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200405110003" rel="nofollow">"Washington Post, AP ignored Bossie's controversial past in articles about his new ad,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America">Media Matters for America</a>, May 11, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-11" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Corn" title="David Corn">David Corn</a>, <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/05/07news.html" class="external text" title="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/05/07news.html" rel="nofollow">"One-man rumor mill bites the dust,"</a> Salon, May 7, 1998.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-12" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200405110003" class="external text" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200405110003" rel="nofollow">"Washington Post, AP ignored Bossie's controversial past in articles about his new ad,"</a> Media Matters for America, May 11, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-13" title="">↑</a> Michael A. Fletcher, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901282.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901282.html" rel="nofollow">"Taking the Cause to the Big Screen. Conservative Advocate David Bossie Turns to Filmmaking After Looking to Counter 'Fahrenheit 9/11',"</a> Washington Post, August 30, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-14" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031010160440/http://citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20031010160440/http://citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" rel="nofollow">About staff: David N. Bossie</a>, Citizens United; archived version October 10, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-15" title="">↑</a> Jonathan Darman and Mark Hosenball, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19140629/site/newsweek/" class="external text" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19140629/site/newsweek/" rel="nofollow">"The New War on Hillary,"</a> Newsweek (MSNBC), June 18, 2007 (issue).</li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-16" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200405110003" class="external text" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200405110003" rel="nofollow">"Washington Post, AP ignored Bossie's controversial past in articles about his new ad,"</a> Media Matters for America, May 11, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-17" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031010160440/http://citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20031010160440/http://citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" rel="nofollow">About staff: David N. Bossie</a>, Citizens United; archived version October 10, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-18" title="">↑</a> David Corn, <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/05/07news.html" class="external text" title="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/05/07news.html" rel="nofollow">"One-man rumor mill bites the dust,"</a> Salon, May 7, 1998.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-19" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20051013062127/http://www.citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20051013062127/http://www.citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" rel="nofollow">About staff: David N. Bossie</a>, Citizens United; most recent archived version October 13, 2005. This profile is available in its archived version at WayBackMachine.org.</li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-20" title="">↑</a> No reference cited. However, the URL <a href="http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20021105-37509625.htm" class="external free" title="http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20021105-37509625.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20021105-37509625.htm</a> was <a href="http://web.archive.org/web//http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20021105-37509625.htm" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web//http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20021105-37509625.htm" rel="nofollow">blocked by the site owner.</a> See the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Walter_Mondale#No_coinidence" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Walter_Mondale#No_coinidence" rel="nofollow">discussion</a> on this entry in the Wikipedia.</li>

<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-21" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040301052533/mirrors.korpios.org/resurgent/L-carterreagan.htm" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20040301052533/mirrors.korpios.org/resurgent/L-carterreagan.htm" rel="nofollow">"Myth: Carter ruined the economy; Reagan saved it. Fact: The Federal Reserve Board was responsible for the events of the late 70s and 80s,"</a> Korpios.org, first archived October 29, 2000.</li>

<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-22" title="">↑</a> Eric Boehlert, "<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/07/20/david_bossie/index_np.html" class="external text" title="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/07/20/david_bossie/index_np.html" rel="nofollow">You can't teach an old attack dog new tricks</a>", Salon.com, July 20, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-23" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020706101903/http://www.citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20020706101903/http://www.citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" rel="nofollow">About staff: David N. Bossie</a>, Citizens United; archived version July 6, 2002. Note: This profile is available in its archived version at WayBackMachine.org.</li>

<li id="cite_note-24"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-24" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020706101903/http://www.citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20020706101903/http://www.citizensunited.org/about/bossie.html" rel="nofollow">About staff: David N. Bossie</a>, Citizens United; archived version July 6, 2002.</li>

<li id="cite_note-25"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-25" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.citizensunited.org/about/bossie.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www.citizensunited.org/about/bossie.aspx" rel="nofollow">David Bossie</a>, Citizens United, accessed June 28, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-26"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-26" title="">↑</a> Max Blumenthal, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061204/blumenthal" class="external text" title="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061204/blumenthal" rel="nofollow">"Hooray for Right-Wing Hollywood,"</a> The Nation, November 16, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-27"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-27" title="">↑</a> Max Blumenthal, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061204/blumenthal" class="external text" title="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061204/blumenthal" rel="nofollow">"Hooray for Right-Wing Hollywood,"</a> The Nation, November 16, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-28"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_N._Bossie#cite_ref-28" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060201012526/http://www.yaf.org/speakers/grassroots/david_bossie_cu.html" class="external text" title="http://web.archive.org/web/20060201012526/http://www.yaf.org/speakers/grassroots/david_bossie_cu.html" rel="nofollow">Featured Speakers: "David N. Bossie, President, Citizens United and Citizens United Foundation,"</a> Young America's Foundation event.</li>

</ol>

<h3>Profiles</h3>

<ul>

<li>"<a href="http://www.americanreview.us/bossie.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.americanreview.us/bossie.htm" rel="nofollow">David Bossie</a>", American Review, undated, accessed October 2004.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.newsguests.com/site/guestinfo/30" class="external text" title="http://www.newsguests.com/site/guestinfo/30" rel="nofollow">Guest Info: David Bossie</a>, NewsGuests.com, accessed June 28, 2007.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1733113/" class="external text" title="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1733113/" rel="nofollow">David Bossie</a>, IMDb.com, accessed June 28, 2007. Note: this profile mirrors Bossie's most recent Citizens United profile.</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bossie" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bossie" rel="nofollow">David Bossie</a> in the Wikipedia.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.americanreview.us/mediagat.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.americanreview.us/mediagat.htm" rel="nofollow">"MEDIAGATE: The Hyping of Whitewater. An Archive,"</a> American Review. Includes article links 1992-1998.</li>

</ul>

<h3>Books about David Bossie</h3>

<ul>

<li>Gene Lyons, "Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater" (Paperback), Franklin Square Press; 1st ed edition July 1996, ISBN-10 1879957523 / ISBN-13 978-1879957527.</li>

</ul>

<h3>Articles by David Bossie</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3419-2004Jun24.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3419-2004Jun24.html" rel="nofollow">"Fahrenheit 9/11: Thumbs Down: Violates Federal Election Campaign Act</a>", Washington Post, June 25, 2004.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Bill Berkowitz, <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43613" class="external text" title="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43613" rel="nofollow">Anti-Obama Echo Chamber in Full Swing</a>, Inter Press Service, August 20, 2008.</li>

</ul>

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They’re wasting a lot of their time and energy, which I love,” Citizens United President David Bossie told CNSNews.com. “I wish them all the best in their efforts. I hope that they work tirelessly to no result, because they want to create incumbent protection programs, which is what McCain-Feingold was, which is what the DISCLOSE ACT is.”

The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission lifted restraints on political speech, allowing corporations and unions to spend money on elections as long as they do not donate directly to a candidate’s campaign. The ruling overturned much, but not all, of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act.

Obama and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) have led the effort to curtail the impact of the ruling.

Schumer has proposed the DISCLOSE ACT, which would require greater disclosure requirements for anyone contributing money to the election or defeat of a political candidate.

But on Wednesday, during an <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_president_of_the_united_states/">online chat on the website Reddit</a>, Obama suggested that the Constitution be amended to restrict political donations.

“Money has always been a factor in politics, but we are seeing something new in the no-holds barred flow of seven and eight figure checks, most undisclosed, into super-PACs; they fundamentally threaten to overwhelm the political process over the long run and drown out the voices of ordinary citizens,” the president wrote. “We need to start with passing the Disclose Act that is already written and been sponsored in Congress - to at least force disclosure of who is giving to who. We should also pass legislation prohibiting the bundling of campaign contributions from lobbyists.”

“Over the longer term, I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United (assuming the Supreme Court doesn't revisit it),” Obama wrote. “Even if the amendment process falls short, it can shine a spotlight of the super-PAC phenomenon and help apply pressure for change.”

Bossie said the Democrats’ goal is to gain advantage over Republicans:

“Citizens United [decision] leveled the playing field,” Bossie said. “What they loved was, for decades, the unions being able to spend their union members’ money unfettered. They loved to be able to have the George Soroses and the MoveOn.orgs. The second conservatives can do the same thing, they cry their crocodile tears.”

Bossie referenced oral arguments before the high court to demonstrate the dangers of political speech restrictions.

“The most important thing during my case was the government’s admission in the Supreme Court in oral arguments that the logical extension of McCain-Feingold was that if it could ban documentary films, it could ban books,” Bossie said. “That is a dangerous thing.”

The Republicans National Convention adopted a plank in their party platform for the full <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/2012-gop-platform-calls-full-repeal-mccain-feingold">repeal of the McCain-Feingold law</a>. Though the provision restricting outside groups from spending on elections was struck down in the Citizens United ruling, some of the law’s restrictions -- such as individual contributions limits, disclosure requirements and disclaimer requirements -- still exist.

Bossie called the GOP plank “a great first step.”

“The party must allow your average American to participate in the political process,” Bossie said. “McCain-Feingold criminalizes political speech. That’s all it does. The American people don’t realize just how arduous and rigid the federal election law is. The barriers to entry for your average person, there are criminal penalties for it if you do it wrong. That’s why people need batteries of lawyers and accountants to meet all the regulatory burdens the U.S. government puts on them.”

The Republican platform says, “We oppose any restrictions or conditions that would discourage Americans from exercising their constitutional right to enter the political fray or limit their commitment to their ideals. As a result, we support repeal of the remaining sections of McCain-Feingold, support either raising or repealing contribution limits, and oppose passage of the DISCLOSE Act or any similar legislation designed to vitiate the Supreme Court’s recent decisions protecting political speech in Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.”

Citizens United says it is dedicated to restoring government to citizens' control. “Through a combination of education, advocacy, and grass roots organization, Citizens United seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security,” its website says.

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dailybeast: David Bossie, the group’s president, had been impressed by Michael Moore’s 2004 anti-Bush polemic, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361596" target="_blank">Fahrenheit 911</a>—not only by the film’s commercial success, but by the impact of the advertising campaign promoting the film. Bossie considered Moore’s ads by far the best political spots of the 2004 cycle, and he decided to transform Citizens United into a political production company. He’d make conservative films targeting liberal candidates, perhaps making some money through the sale of DVDs. But his larger purpose was to use the advertisements for his films as political weapons, exempt (he hoped) from the restrictions of campaign-finance laws because they were in support of a commercial product.

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Bill Berkowitz, <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43613" class="external text" title="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43613" rel="nofollow">Anti-Obama Echo Chamber in Full Swing</a>, Inter Press Service, August 20, 2008.

Bill Berkowitz* 2008

OAKLAND, California, Aug 20 2008 (IPS) - Right-wing groups are stepping up their campaign against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, with two new books on the best-seller lists, another on the verge of publication, and a full-length documentary that will premiere during the party conventions later this month.

Jerome Corsi, a veteran of the 2004 Swiftboating campaign that helped sink the candidacy of the Democratic Party’s John Kerry, had his book “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality” debut at No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-seller list on Sunday. Aug. 17 – although the list’s editors noted that some bookstores have reported receiving bulk orders.

“The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate” by David Freddoso is currently ranked at number five. And another Obama-bashing tome, expected sometime next month, is tentatively titled “Obama Unmasked,” and is written by Floyd Brown – the creator of 1988′s infamous Willie Horton television advertisement that helped put the kybosh on the presidential hopes of the Democrat’s Michael Dukakis.

Now, on Aug. 24, the eve of the Democratic Party’s convention in Denver, “Hype: The Obama Effect” – a full-length documentary that attacks everything about the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee – will be premiering at the Regal Pavilions 15 in the host city. The free showing is being sponsored by Citizens United and Chairman Dick Wadhams of the Colorado Republican Committee.

(The Regal Entertainment Group, which own Regal theaters, is the largest motion picture exhibitor in the world – it operates nearly 20 percent of all indoor screens in the U.S. The chain is owned by Philip Anschutz, an oil magnate, media mogul, and long-time contributor to conservative political causes.)

The film, through interviews with a host of Republican Party supporters, criticises Obama’s political positions, mocks the so-called cult of personality that many critics claim embodies his campaign, casts doubts about his judgment, and questions his character.

“While ‘Hype’ may not generate large box office receipts, it is sure to become another prong in the right-wing attack machine,” Mike Reynolds, a longtime investigative reporter covering politics and religion, told IPS. “[Citizens United head David] Bossie might be hopeful that as the campaign moves forward, some right-wing websites might offer the film as a premium as they have for the books.”

“In order to get regular voters to go see the movie, it will have to garner media buzz on the cable television news networks, like the anti-Obama books have,” Reynolds said. “Looking at both the television advertisement for the film and its five-minute trailer, it’s clear that neither Bossie nor Alan Peterson, the film’s director, have chops; they’re no Michael Moore.”

During the 2004 presidential campaign, one of the earliest attacks against the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Senator John Kerry – predating by several months the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth mega-attack on the candidate’s military record – was spearheaded by Floyd Brown’s group, Citizens United, a long-time conservative enterprise.

The ad became one of George W. Bush’s major themes: Based on Mastercard’s famous ad campaign, the spot cataloged the cost of Kerry’s expensive taste in clothes and his ownership of properties worth millions of dollars. It ended with “Another rich liberal elitist from Massachusetts who claims he’s a man of the people? Priceless.”

The goal of the Citizens United advertisement was to make Kerry look like an elitist; a premise that Bush advisor Karl Rove and the campaign of the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, has revived again this year. These days, in addition to the Obama-is-an-elitist message, he is also being defined by McCain as an empty suit – a “celebrity” who is out of touch with regular folks.

In June of this year, Rove – now a roving right-wing commentator with the Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal and other mainstream media platforms – pulled the snob card from the deck. Speaking at a country club, Rove likened Obama, to “the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”

In other words, Obama, the first African American to run for the presidency, is oddly enough being tagged as an elitist who is out of step with the U.S. public.

Bossie, who co-produced “Hype: The Obama Effect”, which was directed and written by Alan Peterson – who also directed “Fahrenhype 9/11,” a response to Michael Moore’s award-winning documentary “Fahrenheit 911″ – recognises that the film will likely have a very limited – if any – run in theaters and he intends to market it via mail-order sales on the Citizen United website, and through other DVD outlets.

“Bossie is a political hatchet man whose career is based on smears and attacking Democrats,” John Stauber, the executive director of the Centre for Media and Democracy, told IPS. “His Obama documentary will provide plenty of footage for use on the internet and in commercials, but I doubt that in and of itself that “Hype” will make much difference in the campaign.”

“I assume that the overall theme of Obama as ‘socialist agent disguised as cult hero’ must be resonating in the political marketing surveys of the Bossie-types and the McCain operatives, or they would switch to something more effective,” Stauber added.

“Going back to the days when he was unremitting in his attacks against Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bossie’s forte has never been accuracy,” Reynolds said. “It has been bloodletting. And in that regard, if ‘Hype’ gets any traction at all, it is likely to be viewed as the political counterpart of [the horror movie franchise] Saw V, due to be released just before the election.”

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2014

breitbart

CITIZENS UNITED HEAD DAVID BOSSIE: CONSERVATISM UNDER ATTACK FROM WITHIN

Earlier this month at the Conservative Political Action Conference, David Bossie, the president of Citizens United and a veteran congressional investigator during the Clinton years, did not mince words.

"The conservative movement," he said, "is always under attack from the left. But right now, more importantly, we're under attack from within our coaltion as well."

"The movement is fractured," he said, because groups like the American Conservative Union are "straying from our shared conservative values."

Citing the late William F. Buckley, Jr., who wrote that the conservative movement is "on the side of excellence rather than newness," Bossie asserted that the conservative movement is threatened now because "certain groups are trying to buy their way into [it]."

According to Bossie, the conservative movement "is not part of the Republican Party, whose mission is to elect Republicans." Instead, Bossie said, "our mission is to promote conservative candidates and our core conservative values and principles."

"The [conservative] coalition that men like Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan built stood on three equally important foundations : fiscal conservativism, strong national defense, and a social conservativism that held society should adopt a moral code set down by God, the same God from whom we derive our most important civil rights."

"Conservativism itself cannot stand divided. There are some groups today who want to do just that," Bossie said. But Bossie reminded his audience,"it was the unity of the Reagan Coalition that gave it strength."

Bossie called for a vigorous defense of the conservative movement's core principles. "Some of conservativism's enemies . . . would see social conservatives silenced and driven out of the movement." Others would see both social conservatives and national security supporters driven out. "These forces constantly scold us," he said, "that we shouldn't stand in front of history and yell stop, but rather stand aside and politely wave as history passes by."

"They tell us we shouldn't defend the rights of the unborn . . . [or] the institution of marriage," he added.

Bossie said the forces opposing the historical principles of the conservative movement resort to tactics based on propaganda rather than intellectual honesty. "They call us names. They call us bigots," he said. "They call us intolerant for daring to speak up against the intellectual cliques of the cosmopolitan left."

But Bossie rejected this distortion of the modern conservative movement. "Theirs is a conservative movement that would be enslaved to the moral fallacies and fads... of the moment."

Conservatives, Bossie concluded, should reject this approach because it is "a recipe for a crippled movement, a losing coalition in a failing country."

You can watch Bossie's entire speech here:

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DAVID BOSSIE

Back in the year 2000, colleagues David Bossie and Floyd G. Brown collaborated on a book entitled, “Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore.”There’s little surprise there given the fact that both men are devout climate change deniers and evolution myth theorists.

David Bossie, an acolyte of Ronald Reagan, went to work for Floyd Brown at the Presidential Victory Committee back in 1992. He had already come into prominence, and perhaps flown into Brown’s radar, when he and another colleague attempted to show that Susann Coleman had become impregnated by, and committed suicide, after an affair with her law professor, Bill Clinton.  Interestingly, Bossie was hired by Fred Thompson’s U.S. Senate Investigation of the Whitewater Scandal as a lead investigator, to look into Clinton’s financial abuses.

During the investigation it came to light that Bossie, et. al. had published tapes that had been redacted. Bossie was summarily fired.

Once sitting pretty in Brown’s Citizens United Foundation, and feeling right at home with those of the same mind-set, Bossie began to focus his attention on the Citizens United Productions division. Creating such films as: Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration; Celsius 41.11; Rediscovering God in America, hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich; Hillary: The Movie; and Occupy Unmasked, Bossie and friends were riding high in their saddle as a major righ-ring propaganda mill.

It was, of course, Hillary: The Movie that brought them into the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court of the United States. When they were sued before the film was scheduled to be released in early 2008, the suit also brought with it an injunction. Unfortunately, for Bossie and friends, the appeals court did not hear the case until 2010, and the movie was then untimely. However, the Supreme Court ruling referred to by us today simply as Citizens United, sent an outcry throughout the country which is still reverberating today.

In addition to his office at Citizens United, Bossie is a member of the National Conservative Campaign Fund, and has served as Director of Programs at the prestigious right-wing Leadership Institute which is home to many of the Christian right politicians.  Additionally, he is listed as the President and Manager of the Presidential Coalition, a Republican front group that is closely affiliated with Citizens United and instrumental in funding state and local candidates – so close, in fact that they share the same address at 1006 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s a cozy relationship.  But, that’s not the only coziness that Bossie enjoys. Sleaze or not, his gallery of running buddies is vast as you can see on the chart below:

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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/07/wisconsin-republicans-climate-change">http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/07/wisconsin-republicans-climate-change</a>

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State treasurer Matt Adamczyk, a Republican, says his plan to prohibit Tia Nelson, the executive secretary of the state’s <a href="http://bcpl.state.wi.us/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style=" color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); text-decoration: none !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Board of Commissioners of Public Lands</a>, from “engaging in global warming or climate change work” on the job is part of an attempt to trim government spending, which has included <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/us/wisconsins-treasurer-wants-to-cut-needless-workers-starting-with-himself.html?_r=0" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style=" color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); text-decoration: none !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">fighting for his own office to be eliminated</a>.

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The committee tasked with managing some of Wisconsin’s public land, along with a trust to fund school libraries, is set to vote on the measure in its 7 April meeting.

Nelson’s supporters on the board, including Wisconsin secretary of state Doug La Follette, have characterised the vote as a politically motivated witchhunt which comes as the result of Nelson’s participation in a global warming taskforce created by then-governor Jim Doyle, a Democrat, in 2008.

Adamczyk alleges that <a href="http://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate/state/state-examples/action-plans.html#wi" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style=" color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); -webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; text-decoration: none !important; background: transparent;">Nelson’s co-authoring of a report</a> on policy recommendations for the state to address climate change amounted to theft of the state’s time.

Nelson declined to comment on the allegations.

She said that in 10 years leading the agency and working with both Republican and Democratic majority boards, this marked “the first time climate change has been a part of the conversation”.

Adamczyk has taken a special interest in the commission’s spending since he took office in November, reportedly calling for Nelson, who is the daughter of <a href="http://www.earthday.org/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style=" cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); text-decoration: none !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Earth Day</a> founder Gaylord Nelson, to be <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/new-wisconsin-treasurer-makes-waves-in-role-on-obscure-state-board-b99429552z1-289233071.html" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style=" color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); text-decoration: none !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">removed from BCPL’s letterhead within a week of taking office</a>, and telling <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/us/wisconsins-treasurer-wants-to-cut-needless-workers-starting-with-himself.html?_r=0" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link" class=" u-underline" style=" color: rgb(0, 86, 137); cursor: pointer; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); text-decoration: none !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nelson he was “beyond disappointed”</a> that the office maintained a New York Times subscription, and urging its cancellation.

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